how to erase defective hard drives

[ghosthunter]

guys, the problem is erasing the data on DEFECTIVE hard drives.

[mhelskie]

babad mo sa tubig, mga 3 days. Or try mo buksan tapos sirain ung disk sa loob para cgurado ka ehehe

[artpogi]

fdisk mo muna pagkatapos



martilyuhin mo.

bwahahah

[badkuk]

hmmm...dunno, me chance pa rin atang mababasa ung drives kahit binabad sa tubig. over time masisira ung mylar/media, pero theoretically, pwede ata siyang itanggal at itransplant sa ibang hard drive?

hmmm...i guess burning them would work...i mean, di naman kelangang maging abo, basta'at mag melt/warp lang ung media sa loob. messy though.

i still think that a low level EMP should be able wipe the disk clean B)

[radiazone]

buksan at ibabad sa tubig dagat... lagyan nang acid solution...

[Horsepower]

Yes, funny as it may sound, the best solution is to physically destroy the drive. Whack them.

But if these are Seagate Cheetah SCSI 10,000rpm drives or faster, 68-pin, 73GB and above, just give them to me please. I'll destroy them via ultramagnetic and G force. I'll just do something with the drive. I won't be using it but i'll be able to trade it in for some discount when i buy SCSI drives. hehe.

Im planning to dedicate my 720GB SATA-3G drives as data drive then put OS in SCSI drives but i only have 37GB 10k rpm 68-pin drive (+controller of course). An additional one would be for Linux.

So if you have a SCSI 68pin Seagate Cheetah (usually ending model is LW) lying unused somewhere please donate it me to put it to good use. thanks! hehehe :D

[boybi]

disassemble to hard drives, then i-sand paper yung mga discs.

[mazdamazda]

yup... whacking the discs and then scattering the debris is the best solution.

[flakez]

lagay mo sa plastic bag tapos bagsak mo mula sa mataas na floor. repeat if necessary. tapos saka sunugin. hehehe.

[kingkaboodles]

drill press po. binaklas ko yung ibang hdd to get the magnets para mapaglaruan. as for the platters.. i use them as mirrors.